 | 1850 - 300 pages
...Rolls the swift planets in their spheres, And counts the sinner's lonely tears. MILTON'S SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent,...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I'Qonsider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...Judge ; who thenceforth bade thee rest, And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. ' ON THE AUTHOR S BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest He, returning, chide ; — " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, —... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my life is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied J " I fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...deprivation. " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...light denied ? I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts ; who best Bear His... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...(Milton.) When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : — but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. xix. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 604 pages
...these may grow A hundred-fold, who having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian wo. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent,...light denied ?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who best Bear... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...and you are freer than the Parthian king. — Abridged from TAYLOR'S ' Holy Living.' MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent,...account, lest he returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied F" I fondlj ask ; But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...full harmonic numbers joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent,...account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, —... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning... 
